Update: The winner is Robin from Little Pat of Butter! But, Jenny from the beautiful food blog Purple House Dirt has generously offered her cupcake corer as a second prize. Jenny has never used it and wanted it to have a good home. Joy from Pastries by Joy won that corer (it’s just the corer, not the whole kit)! Congrats to both of you!!

When I first heard about the cupcake corer, I thought that it had to be the most gimmicky product imaginable. For years now, I’ve been happily coring cupcakes without ever using the term or the tool – I just used a small paring knife. But, as a recent convert to apple corers, when I was offered a free sample of the cupcake corer, I decided to give it a go.

Stick the corer in a cupcake and twist it a few times.

Cupcake innards come out in the corer.

It makes a perfect hole every time, ready for filling.

After using it, I still think the cupcake corer is hokey. However, it does actually make coring easier; and since the kit comes with two squeeze bottles with tips for filling and frosting (silly me, using that spoon) and an offset spatula, it would make a great gift for someone just getting started with cupcake baking.

The nice folks at Cuisipro have offered me a second cupcake corer to give away. Yay!

How to Win a Cupcake Corer

I used my cupcake corer to fill the inside of my caramel cupcakes with more caramel. For your chance to win, leave a comment telling me your favorite thing to fill cupcakes with. For a second chance, become a Facebook fan and leave a comment on this post on Facebook telling me your second favorite cupcake filling (it must be a comment on this post, not just a comment on my wall).

The Fine Print

All entries must be in by Monday, September 13, 11:59 PM CDT.

Only two entries are allowed per person (one on Facebook and one on this blog).

Blog entries must include an email address or a link to profile with an email address.

I will randomly draw one winner and post the winner on this post on Sept. 14.

If I do not hear back from the winner within one week, I will draw a new winner.

Sorry, only readers in the continental United States are eligible to win.

Well I have only made one type of filling before for cupcakes and that’s ganache, is there anything better than that? I would like to try putting some baked apples in a cupcake though and would defiantly need this corer to do that!

Not sure I have a favorite filling but I’m a big believer in filling my cupcakes with something. It give me a chance to play around with an additional flavor to make things even tastier! I tend to go for rich fillings like ganache, cream cheese, or pudding.

My favorite filling is a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup, it melts slightly and people are in shock when they bite into the cupcake and find a hidden heavenly treat, it’s like finding a toy in the cereal box

I love all your cupcake ideas! My absolute favorite filling, though is the eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. I made my own wedding cake, and actually used this as the filling for one of the layers I love it so much!!!

One of my favorite things to fill a cupcake with is cookie dough! SO delicious. But I am reading from other people about cream cheese! I love cream cheese in pretty much any form so why haven’t I ever filled a cupcake with it! I love your blog by the way! It is very inspiring!

I’ve only done one cupcake with filling and that was watermelon jam!!! Everyone who tried them loved the surprise in the middle Totally wish I had this cupcake cored when I made these it would have made things 10 times easier!!!!

I don’t think I’ve ever met a filling I didn’t like. I think maybe a gen-u-wine, old fashioned custard would be tops. Although I would be more than willing to try everybody’s suggestions. They all sound wonderful.

I am new to cupcake baking and as my favourite flavour is passionfruit I would like to try a passionfruit curd-like filling. I bought myself some piping bags today and now I obviously need a cupcake corer!

Personally, I don’t fill cupcakes with stuff. I just stuff my face with cupcakes. However, I have thought about trying it and wasn’t sure where to start. If I were to fill cupcakes, I would probably start with a chocolate mousse or a creamy caramel. – F. Bear Slippersfuzzybearslippers@gmail.com

This corer certainly looks like a Cool Tool. I fill with mini M&Ms that have been mixed with a peanut butter frosting inside of a Deep Chocolate Cake. The M&Ms are tiny enough to fit through the right size tip, this gadget would certainly fit the bill.VirgSJB@aol.com